Say what you want about Frank Miller as a film director or writer (he impressively turned in a script for RoboCop 2 that was "unfilmable"), but he knows all about how to make something look good. It was his vision after all that made both Sin City and 300 such gloriously cool looking movies that remain the most spiritually true comic book adaptations thanks to their pulpy aesthetics: and it was their style pretty much alone that made their sequels seem like good ideas. Unfortunately both 300: Rise Of An Empire and Sin City: A Dame To Kill For missed the quality benchmark of their predecessors and felt as unnecessary as most suspected they probably would be. But the look of the Sin City sequel/prequel was at least stunningly effective. Yes, it was entirely aware of how pretty it was, but that's also entirely the point. Sadly for Miller, nobody could in good conscious afford his efforts to actually bring the visuals to life much credit at all: he's an aesthetically focused creative first and foremost, and it's just a shame that someone indulged his compulsion to make films himself. Because he can't do it.
